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No. 6I5,533. Patented Dec. 6, I898. A. R. DEMDRY.

BICYCLE STEP.

lication filed. Jun 1898 (No Model.)

um llllll gmwi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM R. DEMORY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO MORITZ FICHTENBERG, OF SAME PLACE.

BICYCLE-STEP,

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent No. 615,533, dated December 6, 1898.

Application filed June 17, 1898. Serial No. 683,670. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM R. DEMORY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin ,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Steps; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple economical bicycle-step that also serves as a washer and casing for an axle-nut.

Therefore said invention consists in the structural peculiarities of the bicycle-step hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents my improved bicycle-step in longitudinal section on the plane indicated by line 1 1 in the third figure of the series and it also illustrates the step in position for use as a washer for an axle-nut incased thereby; Fig. 2, an inner end View of said step, partly broken away, that portion of an axle shown in the preceding figure being in transverse section, as indicated by line 2 2 in said preceding figure; Fig. 3, an elevation of the step as it appears in practice; and Fig. 4, an outer end view of said step, nut, and axle.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents my improved bicycle-step, B a portion of a wheel-axle, and O a nut run on the axle within the step.

The step is tubular and has inturned flange b at its inner end, constituting a Washer for the nut O, the interior of said step adjacent As my invention consists in a tubular nutfitting bicycle-step provided at one end with an inturned flange constitutinga washer there may be more or less of mechanical variation from the showing herein made without departure from said invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A tubular bicycle-step provided at one end with an integral washer in the form of an inturned flange and exteriorly shaped adjacent to the flange to fit an independentmut.

2. A tubular nut-fitting bicycle-step provided with an integral Washer in the form of an inturned end flange and having exterior polygonal contour adjacent to the flange.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of VViscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

ADAM R. DEMORY.

Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT, B. O. ROLOFF. 

